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The publication date of my book Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence is TBD early 2021. Please sign up for my mailing list at the end of this page and follow @TanyaAuthor on Twitter and Instagram for updates. In the meantime, please see advance praise in this piece by Virginia Heffernan in the Los Angeles Times.

I completed production on a documentary by Catherine Gund about her mother, the renowned art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund. Aggie sold a $165 million Lichtenstein painting to start the Art for Justice Fund to fight mass incarceration. AGGIE the movie had its world premiere at Sundance 2020: https://www.sundance.org/projects/aggie. It played at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, on February 11 and at MoMA as part of Doc Fortnight on February 18. The film will open at Film Forum in New York on September 9, 2020.

I helped produce the For Freedoms Congress from February 28 to March 1, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, and Hammer Museum: https://forfreedoms.org/ffcon/

Then at the 2019 Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England, I helped produce a second Sundance For Freedoms Town Hall. Moderated by Brenda Coughlin, the participants included Shirley Abraham, Holly Gordon, Judy Kibinge, Jennifer Pahlka, and Indhu Rubasingham.

In June 2019, I did a reading/performance at the Deep Water Literary Fest in Narrowsburg, New York. The theme was Grimm's Fairy Tales, and I took on "Snow White."

At the 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival, I was on a panel with Maggie Mustard, A.O. Scott, and Deborah Solomon. The event was named by The Cut/New York as one of the most memorable moments of the Festival. You can see the video here.

I moderated a discussion at the International Center of Photography with Daughters of the Movement: Gina Belafonte, daughter of Julie and Harry Belafonte; Suzanne Kay, daughter of Diahann Carroll; Stacy Lynch, daughter of Bill Lynch; Hasna Muhammad, daughter of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz; Dominique Sharpton, daughter of Reverend Al Sharpton; and Keisha Sutton-James, granddaughter of Percy Sutton. The event was featured in Amsterdam News, and Brea Baker wrote about it for ELLE magazine.